Beefy Boxes and Bandwidth Generously Provided by pair Networks
We don't bite newbies here... much
 
PerlMonks  

Re: Re: And you trust your users why?

by dragonchild (Archbishop)
on Mar 23, 2004 at 15:30 UTC ( [id://339040]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Re: And you trust your users why?
in thread Parsing conditional expressions

IMHO, you're comparing apples and oranges. There is a major difference between clients and users. Programs are not "users". They are "clients". They have a well-defined, well-formed, and limited usage of a supplier's capabilities. They are trusted.

People, on the other hand, are "users". They are not well-defined, well-formed, nor are they limited in their capability to err. Programs that deal with "users" must take this into account. (The exception is administrator-type "users", which are trusted, so they can be considered "clients".)

I don't think that suggesting eval here without knowing more about what the OP wants to do is valid. It turns out that the OP's need is better served through other means. eval, imho, is meant for two situations:

  1. Quick'n'dirty hacking on a problem in a one-off situation
  2. Situations where there simply is not any other method of solving the problem

It doesn't appear that either situation applies here.

------
We are the carpenters and bricklayers of the Information Age.

Then there are Damian modules.... *sigh* ... that's not about being less-lazy -- that's about being on some really good drugs -- you know, there is no spoon. - flyingmoose

Log In?
Username:
Password:

What's my password?
Create A New User
Domain Nodelet?
Node Status?
node history
Node Type: note [id://339040]
help
Chatterbox?
and the web crawler heard nothing...

How do I use this?Last hourOther CB clients
Other Users?
Others chanting in the Monastery: (5)
As of 2024-03-28 09:02 GMT
Sections?
Information?
Find Nodes?
Leftovers?
    Voting Booth?

    No recent polls found